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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010

Molecular and genetic analyses of the putative Proteus O antigen gene locus.

Quan Wang, Agnieszka Torzewska, Xiaojuan Ruan, Xiaoting Wang, Antoni Rozalski, Zhujun Shao, Xi Guo, Haijian Zhou, Lu Feng, Lei Wang

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Quan WangTEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, TEDA, Tianjin, China.
Agnieszka Torzewska
Xiaojuan Ruan
Xiaoting Wang
Antoni Rozalski
Zhujun Shao
Xi Guo
Haijian Zhou
Lu Feng
Lei Wang
Nankai University · CNTianjin Economic-Technological Development Area · CNNational Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention · CNUniversity of Łódź · PL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteus species are well-characterized opportunistic pathogens primarily associated with urinary tract infections (UTI) of humans. The Proteus O antigen is one of the most variable constituents of the cell surface, and O antigen heterogeneity is used for serological classification of Proteus isolates. Even though most Proteus O antigen structures have been identified, the O antigen locus has not been well characterized. In this study, we identified the putative Proteus O antigen locus and demonstrated this region's high degree of heterogeneity by comparing sequences of 40 Proteus isolates using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). This analysis identified five putative Proteus O antigen gene clusters, and the probable functions of these O antigen-related genes were proposed, based on their similarity to genes in the available databases. Finally, Proteus-specific genes from these five serogroups were identified by screening 79 strains belonging to the 68 Proteus O antigen serogroups. To our knowledge, this is the first molecular characterization of the putative Proteus O antigen locus, and we describe a novel molecular classification method for the identification of different Proteus serogroups.

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Genes, BacterialPolymorphism, GeneticCluster AnalysisDNA, BacterialDNA FingerprintingHumansMolecular Sequence DataMultigene FamilyO AntigensPhylogenyPolymorphism, Restriction Fragment LengthProteusSequence Analysis, DNASequence HomologyDNA, BacterialO Antigens

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PMID20581173
PMCPMC2918944
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